This article, written by Colleen Barry, appears on ABC News.

Italy’s Fashion Elite Resists Tendency Toward Fast Fashion

Behind the scenes at Milan Fashion Week, the industry’s future is shaping up to be a game of fast vs. slow fashion.

Word has rippled across the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel of a movement to speed up the fashion cycle and strut runway creations straight into store windows and consumers’ shopping bags. But that notion faces resistance in the Italian fashion system.

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